Ok, dead thread I see, but I just found this out through trial and error. I transeferred a blank playlist onto the clip using the sync… I hate sync’ing, thats the big reason I got away from the ipod. Anyway, navigate to you clip using explorer and open the playlist folder. Your blank playlist should be in here titled <playlist_name>.pla. Double click on the playlist and a window will open up. Simply find the music already stored on your sansa clip and drag and drop it into this window. Done. You just created a drag and drop playlist without having to reorganize your music folders.
I’m betting, though I did not try, you could just manually create the playlist in the folder as long as you give it the .pla extension and avoid any sync’ing altogether.
